When AMD released their Radeon HD 5800 series, experts believed that this was the best to come out of the AMD stable for quite some time. And with good reason. The Radeon HD 5800 series was not only the first to offer complete DirectX 11 support but had other unique features such as Eyefinity and the ability to enjoy games on multiple monitors. However, with ATI Radeon HD 5970, AMD also laid claim to the single, fastest GPU in the market. Finally, the Radeon HD 5800 series offered wonderful image quality, had great power consumption even at peak performances and they were very competitively priced. Most of us believed that AMD would take a while to top this as it takes time to perfect a new architecture and make it available at lower prices. This is where AMD has surprised everyone, experts and the competition alike by almost immediately coming out with the Radeon HD 5700 series, offering unbeatable features at unbeatable prices.
As you can guess, the Radeon HD 5700 series has nearly all the features of the Radeon HD 5800 series except that it is meant for a more mainstream market than just extreme overclockers. Amongst the two graphic cards being introduced, the ATI Radeon HD 5770 is priced at around R2, 000 making it possible for far more customers to purchase it while the Radeon HD 5750 is priced even lower between R1, 500 and R1, 600, making it attractive to a very large number of customers who would like an improvement in basic performance as well as enjoy the occasional high-end game.
There is not too much of a difference between the architecture of the AMD Radeon HD 5700 series and the Radeon HD 5800 series. Essentially, AMD has just taken the die used to create the graphics card in the Radeon HD 5800 series and cut it into half. This means the specifications have all been reduced by half – there are 40 texture units, 16 Color Raster Operations and 64 Z/Stencil Raster Operations with a 128-bit GDDR5 memory interface.
Since the number of SIMD engines in both the Radeon HD 5770 as well as Radeon HD 5750 is fewer, these cards do perform a little slower. Else they have almost all the features of the 5800 series such as, support for hardware tessellation; support for managing three monitors on the same card and support for ATI Eyefinity multi-monitor gaming; support for Direct X11 and finally, support for Shader Model 5.0 and OpenCL 1.0
The ATI Radeon HD 5770 and Radeon HD 5750 displayed excellent performance when standard benchmark tests as well as high-end games were run on them. There is no doubt that by launching a series of DirectX 11 ready graphics cards in a wide range of performance and price ratios, AMD is offering far greater value for its cards than its closest competitor, Nvidia is.
Evetech also believes in giving our customers full value for their money when it comes to designing gaming PCs. Contact us today and custom build a gaming system with the latest Radeon 5700 or 5800 series graphics cards. Alternatively visit our pre-configured fully customizable DirectX 11 Gaming PC's Section.
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